Earlier
today
I
attended
a
live
Webcast
featuring
William
Fuessler
of
IBM
Global
Business
Services
(GBS)
and
Angelia
Herrin
of
the
Harvard
Business
Review.
The
title
was
"How
CFOs
Succeed
-
or
Fail
-
in
Closing
the
Execution
Gap."Essentially
an
overview
of
the
findings
of
the
recently
released
IBM
CFO
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Wow,
that
week
went
by
fast.
Almost
too
fast
to
find
this
week's
five
fun
things.
But,
thanks
to
you,
our
ever-growing
audience,
I've
been
able
to
make
the
list
again.
This
week
I
look
at
identity,
geography
and
the
power
of
imagination.
Enjoy!
1.
What
do
you
look
like
on
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Football
is
the
world's
biggest
game
and
the
World
Cup
its
biggest
stage.
Now
ESPN
is
anticipating
it
will
be
the
sporting
world's
biggest
analytics
opportunity
as
well.Advertising
Age
reported
yesterday
of
a
massive
project
to
capture
and
analyze
marketing
data
during
the
upcoming
FIFA
World
Cup
in
South
... Read more

More
than
400
people
attended
Andrew
Popp's
TechTalk
Web
seminar
on
Dashboards
last
Wednesday
and
more
than
60
of
them
had
questions.
Below,
Andrew
replies
to
the
most
popular.
If
you
don't
see
yours,
feel
free
to
email
him.
1.
What
exactly
is
IBM
Cognos
8
Mashup
Service?IBM
Cognos
8
... Read more

Simple
stories,
well-told.
From
IBMer
Chris
Luongo
comes
a
great
series
of
videos
about
the
value
and
role
of
analytics
in
business
and
our
daily
lives.
They're
all
part
of
his
"How
it
Works"
series.
This
one
provides
a
high-level
view
of
analytics
in
general:
This
one
explains
how
anlaytics
software
... Read more

Five
fun
things
for
your
Friday
afternoon...1.
It's
March:
Let
the
(Stats)
Madness
Begin! (This
contribution
from
my
colleague Tim
Powers over
at
SPSS)March
is
a
fun
time
of
year.
The
days
are
longer,
the
weather
is
warmer,
and
the
NCAA
men's
basketball
tournament
distracts
thousands
from
their
jobs.On
Wednesday,
the
Wall
Street
... Read more

Dashboards
are
the
supermodels
of
business
intelligence.
Reports?
Functional. Forecasts?
Essential. Scorecards?
Strategic.Dashboards?
They're
"sexy."
If
you
attended
our
TechTalk
Web
seminar
on
Wednesday
or
watched
the
on-demand
version
you
would
have
seen
Andrew
Popp
demonstrate
some
of
the
"sexy"
new
features
we've
added
to
our
dashboards.
You'll
also
remember
that
making
BI
... Read more

On
the performance
management journey,
Tim
O’Bryan
travels
more
miles
than
most
people. From
his
base
in
Chicago,
the
Marketing
and
Customer
Relations
Director
of
the IBM
Cognos
Innovation
Center
for
Performance
Management travels
twice
a
week
across
the
U.S. His
mission?
To
help
IBM
clients
gain
greater
insights
from
their
information
and
transform
their
... Read more

We
often
talk
about
the
need
to
build
a
complete
picture
from
all
our
data.
Sometimes,
that
means building
a
mashup that
puts
your
sales
data
on
a
map.
In
other
cases,
it
means combining
data
from
your
SAP
applications with
data
that's
not
from
your
SAP
applications. These
are,
no
doubt,
very
valuable
activities.
... Read more

Busy
week
in
the
world
of
business
analytics.
Here
are
five
(5)
fun
things
I
think
you
should
know
(hint
-
the
free
chocolate
is
near
the
end):1.
IBM
is
bullish
on
business
analytics.
Really
bullishIf
the
new
Smarter
Planet
TV
ads,
the
new
Business
Analytics
&
Optimization
service
line
... Read more

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